William Krisel Quotes
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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My education was very tough.
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The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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This is my sadness for shooting my friend
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At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
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I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
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A house is more than just a shelter; that it is a way of improving your way of life.
